Paddy's Woes
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Saint Paddy’s Day came and it went.
A gastronomical event.
the food was spot on,
my arteries groan
I’m sorely in need of a stent!...
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Categories:
stent, drink, food, funny, health,
Form: Limerick
Guess Who
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15 October 1931 was his date of birth,
He is a man of infinite worth.
Rameshwaram was his birthplace,
Poverty was a villain in his case.
A very down-to-earth man;
As a pape...
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Categories:
stent, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Shock Diagnosis
...A February Saturday,
Dull and cold and wet,
A visit from my daughter,
That I never will forget.
“Hello dad, you’re looking tanned”,
“Oh wait, no, you are yellow”
“Get on to 111 she said”,
Befo...
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Categories:
stent, sick,
Form: Rhyme
If I Had Divine Intervention, This Was It
...I do not know if I truly have ever been granted
divine intervention, but most likely I received it
after my surgery for breast cancer when a biopsy was done
to determine if I was “genetic” for my ...
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Categories:
stent, prayer,
Form: Narrative
Acts of War Ii
...Act Eight, Chapter One. Part Two
Part of a grander play.
Are you just an apathetic Deity?
To an intellectual ape,
Did you create me?
Or am I just cosmic hypocrisy.
Our stent...
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Categories:
stent, abortion, absence, adventure, age,
Form: Free verse
Friendly Pirate Wannabe Flies His Jolly Roger
...Friendly pirate wannabe flies his Jolly Roger...
while surfing cyber seas today March 2nd, 2021.
Actually yours truly quite a literate codger
(ah shucks just missed being draft dodger)
no not f...
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Categories:
stent, absence, adventure, confidence, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Blessed Through Faith
...Around five years ago, I was hit with the news I had breast cancer. I kept waiting for news of this and that, and everytime I turned around, I would get more negative news. First, I had to wait to kn...
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Categories:
stent, faith,
Form: Haibun
Holy Spirit Moments
...I’ve never experienced hallelujah or come-to -Jesus moments
like I’m sure many religious folks do.
I’ve never spoken in tongues (nor would I want to).
I don’t believe I was ever moved much by the ...
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Categories:
stent, god,
Form: Prose
The Heart of a Poet Speaks - Part 5
...Dear POETESSES and POETS of POETRY SOUP; I plead of You not to tell my Host I am speaking with You. It has been a long time since I last spoke and I was
coerced to say what my host wanted me to say...
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Categories:
stent, endurance, first love, grief,
Form: Narrative
A Hearty Experience
...A HEARTY EXPERIENCE
Bad cholesterol found easy sites in my heart for deposition
Time came when they needed to be cleaned by operation.
Two stents were planted by what ...
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Categories:
stent, endurance, health, heart,
Form: Couplet
Love In Genes
...LOVE In GENES:
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES....
Chorus :
Extravagent at look,
Fire fly bimping it's twilight at you,
We're living on love...once you move.
Without somebody knowing that love,
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Categories:
stent, analogy,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Cleanse, To Plant 'A Seed of Virtue'
...Cleanse - To plant 'A Seed of Virtue'...!
Cleanse my mind, cleanse my heart
and cleanse my thought I pray;
seething anger, insatiable desire
and pangs of fear way-lay!
Easy prey for stimu...
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Categories:
stent, anger, emotions, fear, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Judging Self
...Too weak to speak what’s alienating me from the things
Persons I love I look around me to find I stand alone
Me strong myself worthy I believing I can
The air is toxic no shame in feeling this w...
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Categories:
stent, blessing, care, change, growth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
A Penny For Your Thoughts
...It is in the grey of icy evenings
When those dimly-lit wishes seem to fade,
A bitter nip, a woe this season brings
The chafing of hope's ardor, delayed.
Even though I grieve during the passag...
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Categories:
stent, deep, hope,
Form: Sonnet
Heart Streams Intersect Then Diverge
...Sum of two, percolating hearts
Two forks merge, Love's current to kickstart
Love's seminal streams nutrients cart
Naively, through winding conduits dart
Each mind's eye the vital signs chart
Through ...
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Categories:
stent, allegory, body, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
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